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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. She graduated in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree, then went to the United States to pursue a doctorate at the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. The first PAWS trial was conducted in Malaysia in 2014.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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Volunteers from the IEEE Malaysia Section and IEEE SIGHT members are working to implement an IoT and smart application solution to grow hydroponic plants with real-time monitoring capabilities. IEEE student members from Moi University in Mombasa, Kenya, designed and deployed "smart kibandas"— open huts or cubicles used for informal business.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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